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Thursday, 27 August 2015

We Waited 24 Years To Have Our First Child- Pastor Dennis Inyang

When resident Pastor, Sureword Assembly, Okota, Lagos, Dennis Inyang
got married to his heartthrob, Aity 25 years ago, they quickly looked
forward to the joy that comes with it – children. They were wrong; this
is because it took them 24 years afterwards before the Almighty God
finally answered their prayers and had a set of twins, a boy and girl in
April, 2015. “We never gave up, although, it was frustrating but we
knew the God that we serve will not disappoint,” Pastor Inyang said.

Asked of his fears for his wife after not having a baby for 24 years, Pastor Inyang said the usual anxiety when a woman wants to give birth took over him. “I was praying to God that she should have a safe delivery, have a peaceful birth, let the children be alive and let everything go well.

As Christians, we kept praying and trusting God that everything will go well, God is God of wonders. I was the first
to hold the babies because my wife was still in the labour room when
the babies were brought out. As I stood there, I just started giving
praise to God. Pastor Inyang added that there was never a time he lost
hope in God, “I knew that God is always faithful and whatever He has
promised, He would bring to pass. As humans, it is not easy to wait
for a long time, it was trying times but we give God the glory that He
gave us the grace to hold on to Him and believe and hope even against
the odds. Even when situations were like we would never have children,
we trusted in God and He didn’t fail us.”

Our confidence has always been in God and He would not begin what He
cannot finish. There were times I wondered when it
would be but there was no time I was angry, resentful or feel like God
didn’t love me. I didn’t feel any of those emotions. But I knew that God
is faithful and He would not allow you to be tempted beyond what you
cannot bear. If God allows it, it means I have what it takes to overcome
it. You know we went through a lot of things, IVF,
it did not work, I did Immuno Therapy and it did not work but we knew
what is impossible with man is possible with God, although that is not
to say we didn’t get medical intervention but it was at a time when the
prospects were negative on both sides.

The Sureword Assembly Pastor has gone further to Christen the twins Awesome and Gladsome, a name Pastor Inyang
say he arrived at because of the awesomeness of God. “There is really
nothing God cannot do,” he said. “At the time we had these babies, my
wife had stopped seeing her monthly period for like 4 years and a Doctor
had already told us that we were not likely to have babies. I was even
diagnosed with Oligospermia but w e trusted God that He will do it,
that is why we say God is awesome. We also wanted to capture our joy and
we named the girl Gladsome. We are excited and grateful to God. Their
native names is Abasiamaobo for the boy, meaning “God has said it” while
the girl is Yaknkwonoabasi, meaning “Let me sing onto the Lord.”

Pastor Inyang advised couples and women still waiting on the Lord
not to give up hope because the gift of having children is God’s. “Hold
on to God, believe you are going to have a baby
even when it doesn’t appear so, know that your Doctor’s word is not
the last word, rather God has the final word. Live your life and don’t
put it on hold because you are yet to have a baby. Don’t run to the Devil for babies, don’t divorce
your spouse. You don’t need to marry another wife or go have a baby
outside wedlock. You can still have a beautiful sizzling marriage even
when the children are yet to come.
Surround yourself with children and have the joy of fatherhood and
motherhood before your own babies come. There is nothing as good as a
waiting couple being there for each other. If the man is there for the
woman, she will feel confident and rest assured that she would not lose
her man to another woman all because she is yet to have a baby.”

“Sometimes, people resort to IVF
and other treatments and they come to noting, some even go for medical
examination and they come clean on both sides, yet they don’t have a baby. The man should be there for the wife and the wife for the man and they should both hold on to God till the children come.

Inyang advised young couples looking at marriage to look beyond the
physical. “You should marry the person you love and who loves you. There
is nothing like the joy of starting together and growing. That is the beauty of marriage, that 2 people
can build a life together. Actually God’s dream for marriage is not
when a successful man marries a girl who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Marriage is that both of them mind the same thing, they work on the same
dreams and which they can bequeath to the children. That is what
marriage is all about and that is the beauty of our marriage.”
“In 25 years, we have been able to build a life together, when I got
married to my wife, I never knew I would be a Pastor and she didn’t know
she would be a Singer. People look at us today and say… “What a
wonderful pair, the husband is preaching while the wife is singing, that
was a secret kept in heaven and we didn’t know that. We married because
we are truly in love. We have seen people in our ministry who didn’t have children giving birth to children. I pray for people
and they have children but God had kept us waiting for a purpose and it
was a very trying period of waiting but looking back, it was worth the wait. When we named our church Sureword Assembly
and we kept preaching that the word of God is sure, how else would it
be demonstrated if not that we waited for a while and the word of God
came true.

3 comments:

Am so happy for this couple. I sat under her ministration and never knew she had no children. Ever happy, smiling and graceful. Even her prayers are so lively and full of grace. Thank you Jesus for the gifts even when all looked bleak. #TeamIty